{"product_id":"the-book-makers-a-history-of-the-book-in-eighteen-lives-adam-smyth-hardcover","title":"The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives -- Adam Smyth, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eA scholar and bookmaker \"breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Books tell all kinds of stories--romances, tragedies, comedies--but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. \u003ci\u003eThe Book-Makers \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new way into the story of Western culture's most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Books have transformed humankind by enabling authors to create, document, and entertain. Yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence and of those who first experimented in the art of printing, design, and binding. Who were the renegade book-makers who changed the course of history? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From Wynkyn de Worde's printing of fifteenth-century bestsellers to Nancy Cunard's avant-garde pamphlets produced on her small press in Normandy, this is a celebration of the book with the people put back in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Smyth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541605640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2024 pg. 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Smyth\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English literature and the history of the book at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He is a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e. He also runs the 39 Steps Press, a small printing press, which he keeps in a barn in Oxfordshire, England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adam Smyth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45742468956388,"sku":"9781541605640","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781541605640.jpg?v=1729964194","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/the-book-makers-a-history-of-the-book-in-eighteen-lives-adam-smyth-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}